Archives for Liberal Arts
The Return of Eloquence — March 4, 2008
TDR Interview: Harry Lewis — February 8, 2008
What is a College Education? — September 27, 2007
Don't Get Converted. Stay. — September 27, 2007
Missing the Basics — June 2, 2005
Students Ignorant of Western Culture: Poll Shows Need for Core Curriculum — June 2, 2005
Two Roads Ever Diverge in a Wood: A Call for a Core Curriculum — June 2, 2005
Dr. Platt's Proposed Curriculum — June 2, 2005
The Path of Least Resistance — June 2, 2005
The Hollow Curriculum — June 2, 2005
English Department: Then and Now — June 2, 2005
TDR Interview: Colin Campbell — May 13, 2005
An Interview With Victor Davis Hanson — February 11, 2005
An Interview With Trustee T. J. Rodgers — June 11, 2004
Dartmouth's Worst Prof: Shelby Grantham — June 11, 2004
Grantham: Band-Aids are Racist — June 11, 2004
The Quotable Shelby Grantham — June 11, 2004
Rodgers Elected to the Board of Trustees: An In-Depth Interview With TJR — June 1, 2004
The New Academia: Whiteness Studies — October 8, 2003
What is a College Education? — September 30, 2003
TDR's Western Culture Primer — September 30, 2003
Courses of Note — September 30, 2003
The Beautiful: Dartmouth's Best Profs — September 30, 2003
...And the Damned: Dartmouth's Worst — September 30, 2003
Preparing the Fall: Dartmouth's Library Crisis — June 8, 2003
Sanborn Values — June 8, 2003
The Year I Rubbed Elbows With Stanley Fish — November 3, 2002
What is the 'West?' — October 15, 2002
Courses of Note — September 27, 2002
What is a College Education? — September 27, 2002
At the Twilight's Last Gleaming: Reflections on Academic Culture at Dartmouth — June 9, 2002
Academia in Review: Interview with Harvey Mansfield — June 9, 2002
Academia in Review: Interview with Jeffrey Hart — June 9, 2002
Dartmouth to Confer Honorary Degrees — May 29, 2002
The Idea of University: TDR Interview with Fr. George Rutler — May 13, 2002
TDR Interview: Harvey Mansfield — March 1, 2002
A Report from the Time Before Course Guides — March 1, 2002
Grades at Dartmouth: on the Rise — March 1, 2002
The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies: J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'Ivory Towers on Sand' — February 4, 2002
Philosophy in the 'Athens of the North' — December 3, 2001
Kwanzaa: the 'Path of Blackness' — December 3, 2001
Educatin in 'The Age of Now': Jeffrey Shaw Reviews 'Non Campus Mentis' — November 12, 2001
Four Millenia of Literary Utopias: From Plato to Orwell; J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'The Faber Book of Utopias' — November 12, 2001
Giving West a Shout Out: Alexander Talcott Reviews Cornell West's Rap Album — November 12, 2001
A Traditional Education, Online? — October 22, 2001
MultiCulturalism: Fact or Threat? — October 15, 2001
Tom Spence '83: Vox Clamantis — October 15, 2001
Salvaging Classical Studies: J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age' — October 15, 2001
Alumni: Fight Student Brainwashing — October 15, 2001
TDR Interview: Jeffrey Hart — October 1, 2001
Jeffrey Hart: Outside the Ivory Tower — October 1, 2001
Smiling: The Classical Canon on Campus — October 1, 2001
Why Western Thought Still Matters: Stella Baer Reviews 'Shining Through the Cultural Catastrophe' — October 1, 2001
The CIDE Report: Diversity or Bust — September 17, 2001
Courses of Note: Dartmouth Course Guide to Freshmen — September 17, 2001
Where Blame Is Due — April 30, 2001
The Crisis of Academic Standards — April 30, 2001
A Jane For All Seasons — March 12, 2001
A Very Rare and Valuable Thing — February 26, 2001
Dartmouth's Racial Separatism — February 12, 2001
Spinning Their Wheels — February 12, 2001
Randy Testa Hates You — February 12, 2001
Back Door Quotas — February 12, 2001
Because You're a Racist! — February 12, 2001
More Funds for Gay Studies — January 15, 2001
A Call to Arms — January 15, 2001
Anthropology on Trial — October 30, 2000
The Battle of the Books: The great authors ignored — October 30, 2000
Gore's Computer Demagoguery — October 2, 2000
What's the Value of an Ivy Degree? — February 7, 2000
Trying and Failing to Go Home — July 8, 1999
The Fishtank, Destroyed — February 3, 1999
The Deconstruction of Duke English — February 3, 1999
Social Text: Fish's Other Flop — February 3, 1999
The Quick Fix: The Error of the New New Math — January 13, 1999
The Fuzziest of Disciplines — January 13, 1999
The New New Math, Applied — January 13, 1999
Dartmouth 2nd in Cultural Literacy — January 13, 1999
Somewhat Suspect Sages — November 17, 1998
Race, Writing and Manhood at Brown — November 17, 1998
Literature and Humanities at Columbia — November 17, 1998
Between Schylla and Charybdis — November 17, 1998
What is a College Education? — September 30, 1998
And the Damned: Dartmouth's Worst Professors — September 30, 1998
The Beautiful: Dartmouth's Best Professors — September 30, 1998
Some Noteworthy Courses — September 30, 1998
Theism, Atheism and the Divine — May 27, 1998
Loughran on the Divinity School — May 27, 1998
Inside the Twisted Steeple — May 27, 1998
What Is the Teaching College? — May 27, 1998
Research and Teaching: Compatible? — April 22, 1998
Prof. Noll on the Research University — April 22, 1998
Western Civilization: The Results Are In — April 22, 1998
Decon 101: Deconstructionism in Today's Literary Criticism — April 15, 1998
Summers on Deconstruction, Feminism — April 15, 1998
Navarro and Steinem's New Companion — April 15, 1998
Following the Herd — April 8, 1998
Dartmouth Ponders Ethnic Studies — April 8, 1998
Professor John Ellis Deconstructs — April 8, 1998
Idealism and Liberal Education: President Freedman's Little Book — June 4, 1997
Dartmouth's Great Courses — October 2, 1996
The Beautiful ... Dartmouth's Best Professors — October 2, 1996
.... And the Damned: Dartmouth's Worst Professors — October 2, 1996
The Meaning of Liberal Arts — June 12, 1996
Cannon, Culture, and Curriculum — June 12, 1996
Virgil, Where Are You? — May 22, 1996
What is a College Education? — May 22, 1996
The Classical Education: An Interview with Professor William Scott — May 22, 1996
Western Culture in the Ivy League — May 22, 1996
Core Classes at Dartmouth — May 22, 1996
Sound Body, Sound Mind — May 22, 1996
Slogans and Clichés — May 15, 1996
Western Dissent — May 15, 1996
Canon Fodder — May 15, 1996
Trends in General Education:An Interview with the President of the National Association of Scholars — May 15, 1996
Dartmouth Without the Core: A Prospectus of Courses for a Dartmouth '98 — May 15, 1996
What Dartmouth Knows— And What It Doesn't — May 15, 1996
Rally 'round the Core — May 1, 1996
Freedman Invictus — May 1, 1996
The Core Cirriculum — May 1, 1996
Columbia Professor on the Core and Columbia's Activist Legacy — May 1, 1996
Columbia's Protests: Western Canon Under the Microscope — May 1, 1996
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